as in washed
to pour liquid over or through in order to cleanse
rinse that shirt immediately, or the paint will set
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Recent Examples of rinsed
David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
It's rinsed, dried, and placed in a roasting pan.
—Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
Once rinsed with water, skin remains soft and smooth.
—Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025
All other produce can be gently rubbed while being rinsed.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
Once rinsed off, your pores are inexplicably less noticeable and your face ridiculously refreshed.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
After complaining of pain, Nelson continues, Dakar rinsed off the solution and gave her a fan to cool her face down.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
At this stage, the anchovies can be packaged with the salt they were cured in, or they can be rinsed, deboned, filleted, packed into tins or jars, and covered in oil.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Both the filter and the basket can be easily rinsed out with a garden hose.
—PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Stop Sale on the orange juice, the other oranges got washed and the orange juice machine got washed, rinsed and sanitized.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
It's rinsed, dried, and placed in a roasting pan.
—Taylor Tobin, Southern Living, 14 Oct. 2025
Once rinsed with water, skin remains soft and smooth.
—Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2025
All other produce can be gently rubbed while being rinsed.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
Once rinsed off, your pores are inexplicably less noticeable and your face ridiculously refreshed.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
After complaining of pain, Nelson continues, Dakar rinsed off the solution and gave her a fan to cool her face down.
—Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
At this stage, the anchovies can be packaged with the salt they were cured in, or they can be rinsed, deboned, filleted, packed into tins or jars, and covered in oil.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
Both the filter and the basket can be easily rinsed out with a garden hose.
—PC Magazine, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rinsed
Verb
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It can be washed and even packed on flights.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Oct. 2025
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Towels and bedding should be washed in hot water to help sanitize them because of their heavy use.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The river also irrigates more than 850,000 acres of farmland — the highest concentration of irrigated acres of any river basin in Colorado.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
15 Oct. 2025
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Trees growing in irrigated lawns are susceptible to overwatering.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Which, Polsky discovers, hasn’t been properly flushed by whoever used it previously.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Photos Snow shared with SFGATE show the difference between the color of the water after it had been flushed—with the first water collected clearly brown in color, and the flushed water looking a more normal color.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In the recent past, Japanese companies like Toyota and Sony had flooded America’s market with high quality but inexpensive cars and electronics, harming the business of great American brands, including General Motors and RCA.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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In 1700, for example, the Dutch flooded part of West Africa with perhaps as much as 40 million pounds of gunpowder, enough for well over half a billion musket shots; the world population at the time may have been as low as 600 million people.—
Clifton Crais,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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There’s also a level of expertise that Questlove and Patel, by being so steeped in the music industry, were able to bring to the interview process.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This cooking method combines three different microwave technologies (traditional microwaving, convection heating and halogen light) to brown foods on the outside while leaving the inside perfectly moist.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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When the soil is moist, but not wet, the tines of the aerator will more easily sink into the soil, and the soil cores will release from the aerator well.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This achievement marks one of the most durable performances ever recorded for aqueous zinc–organic batteries, a field that has struggled with poor cycling stability and capacity fading.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Swift ends in the bathroom where Swift lies partly submerged in the tub — another ode to Ophelia, but also to the album's aqueous cover.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Forecasts from various sources like the Climate Prediction Center and Farmers' Almanac predict a damp and unsettled week.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
25 Oct. 2025
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Microwave your damp towel for about 30 seconds.—
RikkiLynn Shields Hannigan,
Health,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Rinsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rinsed. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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